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Is IT driving costs down?

Everywhere you go the answer seems to be Yes. But is it?

For one thing the sheer power of data processing has allowed governments to dictate a million and one new rules in every business which needs massive changes to processes and processing power for businesses to meet, for example in banking those changes [...]

Government censorship

After the censorship in Egypt and the ongoing censorship in many countries our politicians have seen a way to shut up those pesky sites that keep questioning what they do and posting their failings.

Western governments are now looking at installing internet kill switches for themselves.

Well, no sooner than the government starts to [...]

China makes progress while we go backwards

The UK’s chief nutter prepares a sacrifice to the wind gods.

It seems China is starting to look at moving away from coal fired power stations to new cleaner energy using Thorium in a TMSR (Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor). Plans are in place for a reactor to be up and running in 20 years.

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All we can afford is what we need

It seems that the government is unable to steal enough from the poor public and the corporations to keep its IT funding in the way they have become accustomed.

Even though government systems have always been rubbish, poorly specified and managed by too many rules it seems that they have been designed with the [...]

Data charges and fair use

Data charges is one of the main areas where comms providers make their money. The data ranges from simple text in an SMS message to pictures on web pages. As with all thing each provider offers different packages to entice customers to them instead of a competitor. So instead of just charging by per [...]

Evolution in action

What many do not realise is that evolution did not stop when the human species created our great society and started to control this planets resources and modify the direction of their own evolution.

Evolution continues, species die out and other species are born. The speed this happens is so slow that even a [...]

Emotions as input

Another scientist who seems to have landed on the gravy train is Professor Peter Robinson. After becoming lost in his own home town and relying on Sat Nav to get about from, probably, his shrink or accountant to his home he noticed he was losing his temper and decided that simple devices such [...]

Planning for the future

Here is the way our lords and masters plan for the future.

Tilting at windmills. Yet they class this as a success as they don’t generate the electrickery in their country.

Being green still means the same as it did all them years ago. Niave and easily led.

and the wheel continues to [...]

The wedge is pushed in a bit more

One of the areas where we have people shouting for more and more censorship is on the web. Censorship is one of these things where we seem happy to put in place blocks to stop people doing what they want to do.

Of course it starts slowly and with something that no right minded [...]

Science and politics

It seems yet again that being a politician means you know everything about everything. Much more than the average human being and certainly much more than these boring old fuddy duddy scientists.

It has long been known that politicians listen to science and facts when it suits them and ignores the science and [...]